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Tag Archives: NHS Managerial Self-Interest
Difficult Reflections on Certain Aspects of the NHS: Be Prepared to Look-Away Now (BBC News)
Summary You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Gosport hospital deaths: prescribed painkillers ‘shortened 456 lives’. London: BBC Health News, June 20th 2018. You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2018). Shipman, Bristol, Stafford, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accountability, Accountability and Transparency, Adults at Risk of Harm, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Attitudes to Ageing, Availability of Opioid Painkillers, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Baker Report, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Killed in Hospital, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Bureaucracy, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Cover-Ups), Closed Ranks Culture (Denial), Closed Ranks Culture (Determination Not to Know), Closed Ranks Culture (Misplaced Loyalty), Closing Ranks, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture and Leadership, Culture of Complacency, Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Culture, Diamorphine, Disregard for Human Life, Dr Katherine Sleeman: Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London, Failings in Care in Hospitals, Faith-Shattering NHS Scandals, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Fundamental Standards of Behaviour, Gosport Hospital Deaths: Timeline, Gosport Independent Panel, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport War Memorial Hospital: Report of the Gosport Independent Panel, Hampshire Constabulary, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Mortality, House of Commons, In-Hospital Mortality, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Prescribing of Painkillers, Institutionalised Determination Not to Know (Sir Brian Jarman: Allegation), Institutionalised Neglect, Institutionalised Unkindness, Matthew McClelland: Director of Fitness to Practise at Nursing and Midwifery Council, Negative Culture, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Norman Lamb: Former Liberal Democrat Health Minister, Organisational Culture, Painkillers, Parliamentarians, Patient Harm, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Peer Pressure, Postcode Lottery of Hospital Death Rates, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventing Premature Mortality, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professor Richard Baker: Leicester University, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir John Strang: Director of National Addiction Centre at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Premature Mortality, Right Reverend James Jones KBE: Chair of Gosport Independent Panel, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Super-Strength Painkillers, Syringe Drivers: Opioid Delivery, Top-Down Managerial Culture, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Unnecessary In-Hospital Deaths, Unresponsive Culture, USA Opioid Epidemic, Values, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Warning Signs, Whistlelowing, Willful Blindness
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Latest NHS Whistleblowing Policy (NHS Improvement)
Summary NHS Improvement has released a summary of NHS whistleblowing policy, in the form of a practical handbook. The aim is to promote an open and supportive culture which encourages staff to raise concerns about patient care quality or safety … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountability, Advancing Change Team, Avoidable Harm, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, CHKS Ltd, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture Change, Culture Change in Health and Care, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture Free From Bullying, Culture of Raising Concerns, Culture of Reflective Practice, Culture of Safety, Culture of Valuing Staff, Data Quality in England (CHKS), Defensive Culture, Francis Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU), Freedom to Speak Up Guardian, Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 10: Training, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 11: Support, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 12: Support to Find Alternative Employment in the NHS, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 13: Transparency, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 14: Accountability, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 15: External Review, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 16: Coordinated Regulatory Action, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 17: Recognition of Organisations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 18: Students and Trainees, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 19: Primary Care, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 1: Culture of Safety, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 20: Legal Protection, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 2: Culture of Raising Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 4: Culture of Visible Leadership, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 5: Culture of Valuing Staff, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 6: Culture of Reflective Practice, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 7: Raising and Reporting Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 8: Investigations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 9: Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up Self-Review Tool, Freedom to Speak Up: Guidance for NHS Trust and NHS Foundation Trust Boards, Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), FTSU Guardian, FTSU Guardian Reports, Hospital Mortality Rates, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Independent National Officer, Independent National Officer (INO), Independent National Whistleblowing Officer, Independent Patient Safety Champion, Independent Staff Concerns Advocate, Inspections and Bureaucracy, Intensive Support Teams, Investigations, Leadership for Culture Change, Legal Protection, Lives Ruined by Poor Handling of Staff Raising Concerns, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Monitor, National Guardian’s Office, National Reporting and Learning System, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, NHS TDA: NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), NHS Whistleblowing Policy, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Oversight and Monitoring, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Raising and Reporting Concerns, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns (Whistleblowing) NHS Policy, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Reflective Practice, Regulation, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Reporting Culture, Reporting Culture in the NHS, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Verita, Verita: Improvement Through Investigation, Vision for Raising Concerns in NHS, Well-Led Framework for Governance Reviews, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing in the NHS, Whistleblowing Protection for Doctors in Training
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Care Home Residents’ Access to GPs For Basic Health Care: Far Sighted or Short Sighted GP Contract Changes? (BBC News)
Summary Care home residents are generally 50% more likely to be admitted to hospital as an emergency than other older persons, and might be expected to be a high priority for primary care. Paradoxically, there are reports that GPs have … Continue reading →
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The Foundations for a Patient-Centred NHS Learning Culture? (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary This “Learning Not Blaming” report presents the government’s response to (i) the Francis Freedom to Speak Up review, (ii) the Morecambe Bay Investigation, and (iii) the Public Administration Select Committee’s report on clinical incidents. The common theme for addressing … Continue reading →
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More on the NHS Culture of Openness: Lessons From Two Francis Inquiries (Department of Health)
Summary The Government has published a report explaining progress in the NHS since the Francis Inquiry report (February 2013) . It supports the full adoption, in principle, of Freedom to Speak Up review recommendations to protect whistleblowers who raise legitimate … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Light at the End of the Tunnel? (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary The review of NHS reporting culture led by Sir Robert Francis QC, which has been working achieve better protection of NHS whistleblowers who raise concerns, will report later today. The “Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up” review was expected … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ACAS: Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (UK), Accountability, Adversarial and Defensive Culture, Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADRs), Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, Blacklisting, Blacklisting and Kangaroo Courts, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Compromise Agreements, Confidentiality Clauses, Continuous Improvement, Coordinated Regulatory Action, CQC Recognition of Well-Led Organisations, Culture Change, Culture Free From Bullying, Culture of Raising Concerns, Culture of Reflective Practice, Culture of Safety, Culture of Valuing Staff, Culture of Visible Leadership, Defensive Leadership, Duty of Candour (DoC), Eight Step Model (Acronym: EVIDENCE) for Raising and Escalating Concerns: Escal8, Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA), Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, Escal8: Model for Raising and Escalating Concerns, EVIDENCE: Mnemonic for Escal8 - Eight Step Model for Raising and Escalating Concerns, Extending Legal Protection, External Review, FPPT: Fit and Proper Person Test, Francis Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Freedom to Speak Up Report, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 10: Training, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 11: Support, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 12: Support to Find Alternative Employment in the NHS, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 13: Transparency, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 14: Accountability, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 15: External Review, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 16: Coordinated Regulatory Action, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 17: Recognition of Organisations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 18: Students and Trainees, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 19: Primary Care, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 1: Culture of Safety, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 20: Legal Protection, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 2: Culture of Raising Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 4: Culture of Visible Leadership, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 5: Culture of Valuing Staff, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 6: Culture of Reflective Practice, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 7: Raising and Reporting Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 8: Investigations, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 9: Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? 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More on Barriers to Effective Whistleblowing (BBC News / Patients First / Health Select Committee)
Summary Whistleblowers who “speak out” about their concerns concerning care standards in the health service may still face obstacles, problems and intimidation, despite recent progress in the creation of a more open and transparent NHS culture. Patients First has submitted … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ann Clwyd MP, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Cathy James: Chief Executive of Public Concern, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Clwyd and Hart Review Into Hospital Complaints, Complaint Advocacy Services, Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Complaint Handling in Social Care, Complaints and Raising Concerns, Complaints Handling in Primary Care, Complaints Matter, Complaints Programme Board (CPB), Complaints Wales, Culture, Culture Change, Defensive Leadership, Duty of Candour, Failure to Act, Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report, Francis Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Gagging Orders, General Medical Council (GMC), Handling of Complaints by Commissioners, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Hard Truths, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Service Ombudsman, Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association (HAPIA), Healthwatch England: Power to Act as Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Honesty, House of Commons Health Committee, House of Commons Health Committee Report on Complaints and Raising Concerns, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Local Ward Cultures, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Mistreatment of Whistleblowers, Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, No Wrong Door Policy, Nurse Helene Donnelly, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Raising Concerns, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, PALS and NHS Complaints Advocacy Arrangements, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), Patients First (Support Organisation), Patients First and Foremost, Positive Culture, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professional Regulators and Complaints, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Programme to Identify Whistleblowers Who Have Suffered Detriment, Proposal for Single Complaints Gateway for Health and Social Care, Proposal for Single Health and Social Care Ombudsman for England, Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), Public Concern at Work, Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Putting Patients First, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Policy, Raising Standards, Relatives and Residents Association, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Role of Commissioners in Complaints, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Staff Awareness, Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Statutory Duty of Candour, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Staff Raising Concerns, Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the NHS, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector
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Healthcare Providers Supplying Misleading Information: Consultation (Department of Health)
Summary The Care Bill 2014 will make it a criminal offence for healthcare providers to supply or publish false or misleading information. The offence in the Care Bill is wide in its areas of potential interpretation, so may be limited by … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accuracy of Public Information, Ambulance Response Rate Times, Applying FOMI to Quality Accounts, C.difficile Rates, Cancer Outcomes Dataset, Candour, Care Bill 2013-14, Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) and Quality Accounts, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture Change, Data Errors, False or Misleading Information, False or Misleading Information (FOMI), FOMI Offence, Friends and Family Test (FFT), Government Response to Francis Inquiry Report, Hard Truths, Healthcare Providers Supplying Misleading Information: Consultation, Honesty, Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Complaints, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Inspections by CQC, Liberating the NHS: Transparency in Outcomes, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Misleading Information, Myocardial Infarction, National Cancer Waiting Times Dataset, National Maternity Services Dataset (NMDS), NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Patient Safety Incident Reporting, Patient-Centred Culture, Positive Culture, Provider Registration with CQC, Reporting Culture, Risk Assessment for Venous Thrombo-Embolism, Stroke, Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator (SHMI), Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Open Data, Transparency and Public Trust
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Whistleblowing in the NHS: Theory Versus Practice? (BBC News / Whistleblowing Helpline / NAO / SCIE)
Summary Dr Raj Mattu, a heart specialist was dismissed by University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2010, after almost a decade of alleged unfair treatment by his employers, since exposing the cases of two patients who had … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged BBC Health News, BBC News: Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Leadership, Dr Raj Mattu (Consultant), Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Flowchart of Whistleblowing Process, Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Goldman Sachs, Harassment of Whistleblowers, HMRC, Honesty, House of Commons, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Local Ward Cultures, Margaret Hodge, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, National Audit Office (NAO), Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Hospitals Complaints System, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Parliamentarians, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Incidents, Patients First and Foremost, Public Accounts Committee, Public Concern at Work, Public Disclosure Act (1988), Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), Putting Patients First, Qualtrics, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Around Deaths, Raising Concerns Policy, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, SCIE Social Care TV, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Code of Conduct, Social Care Commitment, Social Care TV, Speaking Out, Staff Awareness, Stages in Raising Concerns, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector, Whistleblowing In the Wind, Whistleblowing Policy, Winterbourne View Hospital, Workplace Culture, Zero Tolerance Approaches
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CQC Inspection Report Criticises Furness General Hospital Dementia Unit (BBC News)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) attributed problems in the standards of care in the Ramsay Unit at Furness General Hospital primarily to “chronic staff shortages”. New admissions to the unit were halted by the Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust briefly, after an … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Capacity and Capability of Regulators, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Quality Commission Monitor and Department of Health Liaison, Central Manchester Report (December 2011), Central Manchester University Hospital Diagnostic Review (2011), Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE), Clinical Risk Recognition and Planning, Complexity in the Complaints System, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Cover-Ups (Attributed), CQC Failings, CQC Hospital Inspections, Culture, Culture Change in the NHS, Cumbria, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, David Behan: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission, David Bennett: Chief Executive of Monitor, David Flory: Chief Executive of NHS Trust Development Authority, Delayed Problem Recognition, Dr Bill Kirkup CBE, Dr Mike Durkin: NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary Royal College of Nursing, Failure of Communications and Inadequate Processes, False Assurance, Fielding Report, Flynn Report, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Foundation Trust Status, Foundation Trust Status Distractions, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 1: Culture of Safety, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 2: Culture of Raising Concerns, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 7: Raising and Reporting Concerns, Furness General Hospital, Furness General Hospital Dementia Unit, Furness General Hospital in Cumbria, Furness General Hospital: Ramsay Unit, General Medical Council (GMC), Gold Command, Gold Command Process, Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, Health Systems in Transition (HiT), Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Inspection and Regulation, Joshua Titcombe, Kirkup Recommendations for Wider NHS, Lack of Clarity About Roles, Lack of Clarity on Overall Responsibility, Local Supervising Authority, Local Supervising Authority Midwifery Officer (LSAMO), Missed Opportunities, Morecambe Bay Inquiry, Morecambe Bay Investigation Report, Negative Culture, NHS Accountability, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Litigation Authority’s Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) Reports, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, NHS Micro-Climates, NHS Regulation, NHSLA Accreditation, North West Health Authority, North West Strategic Health Authority (NW SHA), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Openness, Over-Complexity, Over-Reliance on External Approval, Over-Reliance on External Judgments, Over-Reliance on Judgments of Others, Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman, Patient Safety, Peter Carter: Royal College of Nursing, Preventable Hospital Mortality, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) review of Trust-Wide Governance, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality Surveillance Groups, Recommendations for the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Reducing Complexity, Regulating Healthcare Systems, Regulating Healthcare Systems: Monitor, Regulation, Regulators, Regulators Sharing Information, Regulatory and Professional Bodies, Regulatory Gaps in Healthcare, Regulatory System, Report Into Maternity Care at Cumbria’s Furness General Hospital, Report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safe Staffing Levels, Scrutiny, Scrutiny of Perinatal and Maternal Deaths, Second Mid Staffs: Furness General Hospital Parallels, Serious and Untoward Incidents (SUIs), Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Staffing (Hospitals), Staffing Levels, Systems Complexity, Target Culture, Target-Chasing (Hitting the Target Missing the Point), Transparency and Accountability, Una O’Brien: Department of Health, Unannounced Care Quality Commission Inspection, Unannounced Hospital Inspections, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Unnecessary In-Hospital Deaths, Whistleblowing, Workplace Culture
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